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All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
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"IF Yous ARE NEUTRAL IN SITUATIONS OF INJUSTICE, You lot HAVE CHOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Had our hearts really get and then numb that we needed dead bodies in order to experience the beat of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to be shocked dorsum into my best self?"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Because racism was alive and real as shit. It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the simply people who said it wasn't, and the only people who said, "Don't talk about it" were white. Well, stop lying. That'due south what I wanted to tell those people. Stop lying. Terminate denying. That's why I was marching. Nothing was going to change unless nosotros did something about it. We! White people!"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"History can only teach its lesson if it is remembered."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I wanted him to know that I saw him, a guy who, even with a tear-streaked face up, seemed to take two tiny smiles framing his eyes like parentheses, a guy on the ground pantomiming his death to remind the world he was alive."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"In 2012, in the United Kingdom, the number of people (regardless of race) shot and killed past police officers: one In 2013, in the U.k., the number of times constabulary officers fired guns in the line of duty/the number of people fatally shot: 3/0 In the United States, in the seven year period ending in 2012, a white police officer killed a black person nearly two times a calendar week. "I'm not much of a talker," she finished up. "Yous know that. Just I know numbers. The numbers don't lie, kids. The numbers always tell a story."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best manner to aid them feel better is to simply treat them as human. Not as victims. Just yous as you. Rashad Butler, before all this."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Nobody says the words anymore, but somehow the violence still remains. If I didn't want the violence to remain, I had to do a hell of a lot more than just say the correct things and non say the wrong things."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"This is a roll telephone call! SEAN Bong! So she followed with "Absent again today! OSCAR GRANT! Absent again today! REKIA BOYD! Absent-minded once again today! RAMARLEY GRAHAM!" She paused, and at that bespeak the rest of us knew exactly what to do. "Absent-minded once again today!" "AIYANA JONES!" "Absent again today!" "FREDDIE Greyness!" "Absent-minded over again today!" "MICHAEL BROWN!" "Absent again today!" "TAMIR RICE!" "Absent again today!" "ERIC GARNER!" "Absent again today!" "TARIKA WILSON!" "Absent once more today!" And Spoony kept feeding Berry the papers, one later another, as she connected to read downwards the list of unarmed black people killed by the police."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I do believe we can do better, be amend. Merely we tin can't hide backside fright. Nosotros can't tuck truth between the cushions of condolement. We accept to deal with information technology, really confront it, so that our children can live with a lot less weight. We owe it to them."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Non like KKK racist," she said. "I don't think most people think they're racist. But every time something similar this happens, you could, similar you said, say, 'Not my problem.' You could say, 'It's a sometime thing.' Every fourth dimension it happened."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Nobody says the words anymore, but somehow the violence notwithstanding remains."
― Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

"Only do protests even piece of work? I asked. I hateful, I was all for the thought. I really was. But the but time I had e'er heard about any protests actually working was Dr. King'southward. Thats information technology. Own't never heard of no other ones making a departure.

Drupe stepped in. "They're a slice to the puzzle. I mean in that location are a lot of pieces, like reforming laws and things like that. But protests are what sends the message to the folks in power that something needs to change. That people are fed upward, she explained. "We have a right to voice how nosotros feel, and isn't that better than just doing nothing."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"...nobody owes you annihilation, so when yous become something, exist appreciative."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I hateful, I had seen this happen and so many times. Not personally, just on Television set. In the news. People getting browbeaten, and sometimes killed, past the cops, and and then there's all this fuss about information technology, simply to build up to a big heartbreak when zero happens. The cops get off. And everybody cries and waits for the next dead kid, to do it all over again. That'southward the mode the story goes. A different kind of Lifetime movie. I didn't want all that. Didn't need it."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"some people had told me racism was a thing of he past, they'd told me non to get involved. Just that was nuts. They were nuts. And more to the point---they's all been white people. Well guess what? I'm white too ---and that'southward exactly why I'm marching. I had to. Because racism was alive and real as shit. It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the but people who aids information technology wasn't, and the simply people was said, "Don't talk about information technology" were white. Well, terminate lying. That's what I wanted to tell those people. Stop lying. Stop Denying. That's why I'm marching. Nothing was going to change unless we did something virtually information technology. We! White people! We had to stand up and say something virtually it goo, because otherwise it was just like what those posters in the crowd outside school said: OUR SILENCE IS ANOTHER KIND OF VIOLENCE."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Paul'd gotten it all wrong. Becoming a cop would not brand him a hero- but what kind of cop he became could have."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Fear. Like the mode Ma told me to cross the street to the other side of the sidewalk if I was walking domicile lone and I saw a group of guys walking toward me. Guys. That wasn't the give-and-take she used. Thugs. Fear of thugs. Just like what some people were saying on the news. Rashad looked like a thug."
― Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

"You think it'south impaired when someone says there'due south no 'I' in team, just you stick ane in there and you lot see how impaired that looks."
― Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

"Your left! Your left! Your left-right-left! Your left! Your left! Your left-right-left! Yeah, yep, yeah. I left. I left. I left-left-left that wack school and that even more wack ROTC drill team because it was Friday, which to me, and basically every other person on World, meant information technology was fourth dimension to party. Okay, maybe not everybody on World. I'one thousand sure there was a monk somewhere on a mountain who might've been thinking of something else. Just I wasn't no monk. Give thanks God. So for me and my friends, Friday was just another word for party. Monday, Tuesday, Hump Day (considering who can resist the word "hump"?), Thursday, and Party."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"What information technology was similar to dearest something enough to do annihilation to come up back to it."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"I hateful, I had seen this happen so many times. Not personally, but on TV. In the news. People getting beaten, and sometimes killed, by the cops, and then there's all this fuss about information technology, only to build up to a large heartbreak when nothing happens. The cops become off. And everybody cries and waits for the side by side expressionless kid, to practise it all over again. That'due south the way the story goes. A different kind of Lifetime movie."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Practice you know the stats? It's something similar blackness people are twice as likely to have no weapons on them when they're killed by cops. Twice as likely! Should I run down the list of the people this has happened to? Calm down? Let'southward paint their names on the walls and watch, there'll be enough to requite the entire infirmary a fresh new wait. So tell me to calm down. He could've been killed!"
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

"Even if they didn't know Rashad, even if, for some reason, they hated Rashad, they couldn't just ignore what happened to him; they couldn't walk away. They were probably afraid, too. Afraid of people like Paul. Afraid of cops in general. Hell, they were probably afraid of people like me. I didn't blame them. I'd be afraid besides, fifty-fifty if I was a frigging business firm like Tooms. But I didn't have to be because my shield was that I was white. It didn't thing that I knew Paul."
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

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